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" The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities. "

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" Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people. "

Janet Yellen

Risk

Seriously

People

" I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Politics

Live

Think

" The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. "

" In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things. "

Janet Yellen

Economy

Giving

" When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit. "

" From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways. "

" I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights. "

" What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.' "

" Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948. "

" It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. "

" While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches. "

" In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. "

" National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule. "

" The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort. "

" I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. "

Charlotte Bronte

Will

Bird

" Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. "

George Bernard Shaw

Earth

Class

" To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity. "

" Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals. "

" We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence. "

" Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever. "

" New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over. "

Paloma Elsesser

Own

People

" The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie. "

" My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. "

" The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you. "

" We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence. "

" John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years. "

" Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. "

" We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. "

" Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else. "

" Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. "